Donald DeMarco: I had a terrible dream last night. Maybe it was brought about by that extra slice of “everything on it” pizza I consumed before I retired. It was having its revenge. At any rate, the dream was not only terrifying, but it lasted a long time. I hastened to write it down before I forgot the incidents that rose to [...]
Estimated 20,000 attend Life Chain The 2025 Life Chain, held on Sunday, October 5 in most locations, marked the 35th year of this powerful demonstration in Canada. The Life Chain Canada committee used the occasion to launch a new online hub [...]
Interim Staff MP Rachael Thomas (Lethbridge, Alberta) told the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage that the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) targets pro-life advocates. On Sept. 24 Conservative MP Rachael Thomas (Lethbridge, Alberta) told the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage that the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) targets pro-life advocates. She said that CAHN has been funded by the federal government and [...]
Paul Tuns: The August 27 Globe and Mail reported that Rheanna Laderoute, 19, died of sepsis after taking the abortion pill. Described by her older sister, Kassandra Costabile, as empathetic with a quiet grace and a sense of humour, Laderoute died at the Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket, Ont., in February 2022. She was admitted on Feb. 14, about two weeks [...]
Paul Tuns: According to the Catholic Register, Karina Gould, chair of the House of Commons Committee on Finance, has denied the Carney government has any plans to follow through with a proposal from the committee in 2024 to rescind the charitable tax status of religious organizations by removing the promotion of religion as a valid charitable end. The Register obtained a copy [...]
Chicago’s Cardinal Blase Cupich has been a painful disappointment for pro-lifers. A long-time ally of the since-defrocked abuser, Theodore McCarrick, Cupich has been, at best, a reluctant defender of the unborn. Although he did hail the demise of Roe v. Wade as an opportunity for “a national conversation on protecting human life in the womb,” he criticized a statement made by his brother [...]
Paul Tuns Ottawa’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Fund gave the University of British Columbia faculty of Medicine’s Contraception and Abortion Research Team (CART) $4.3 million in taxpayer funding to pay for research into expanding abortion to “underserved” groups such as individuals who identify as LGBTQ+, the homeless, and youth. UBC Medicine said in a press release, the funding will “address barriers to [...]
Dan Di Rocco: Dave Bolton, long-time production and layout manager for The Interim newspaper, died July 27, stricken by cancer. He was 72. For two decades, from 2000 to 2020, Dave contributed to the monthly publishing of our paper, laying out the articles, ads, and other components of the publication. Often it was a pressure cooker of a job, weeks of slow [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey In 2023, Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) planned to display abortion victim photography during our press conference on Parliament Hill on May 10, the day prior to the National March for Life, but the Parliamentary Protective Service (PPS) stopped us from doing so. They originally cited an older version of General Rules for [...]
Donald DeMarco: My iPad, that incomprehensible marvel of technology, conveyed a letter from a politician who wanted my vote. He was polite, as was proper, and promised to do many good things if elected, as was expected. He closed his missive, fully confident that I would fully agree with him. “And I will always defend,” he said, “a woman’s right to abortion.” [...]
Tanis Cortens: A simple comic strip posted on X (formerly Twitter) by pro-life English doctor Calum Miller reveals an often-neglected truth: many fathers mourn their aborted children. The four-panel image, posted on May 18, depicts a boy playing on a swing and building a block tower with his father. Then the child fades, leaving his father distraught. In the final panel, the [...]
Paul Tuns: Just 11 days after Charlie Kirk was killed, his widow Erika Kirk addressed the nationally broadcast memorial service with words of grace: “My husband, Charlie, he wanted to save young men just like the one who took his life … On the cross, our Savior said: ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.’ That young man—that young [...]
Tanis Cortens: A July study published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research found that women who abort their children are more at risk for mental health issues than those who choose life. Researchers assessed 28,721 women who aborted and 1,228,807 who gave birth in Quebec hospitals between 2006 and 2022. According to the study, mental health-related hospitalization was more common after abortion [...]
Paul Tuns: In July, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute published a paper by Christine Van Geyn, a lawyer and litigation director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation, titled “Anti-free speech ‘bubble laws’ are unconstitutional – and expanding. We need to stop them.” Van Geyn wrote that “From one province in 1995 to thousands of locations across multiple cities by 2025, ‘bubble zone’ laws have significantly [...]
To mark the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, Paul Tuns, editor of The Interim, sat down with Campaign Life Coalition vice president Matthew Wojciechowski to discuss life and family issues at the UN. CLC has had Special Consultative Status as a non-government organization at the UN since 1999 and Wojcieschowski has been to UN events more than [...]